How to Create Website Shortcuts on iPhone and iPad through Safari iOS 7

Is there a website you visit every day? Like do you just start your online meanderings with one particular website (or a group of them)? If yes, then creating a website shortcut on the iPhone/iPad (for the websites) would make sense for productivity.

In this short iOS 7 tutorial, we’re looking at an age-old (and very popular) method of creating shortcuts to websites on the iDevice. This is a very basic tutorial so feel free to skip to the bottom for other ideas.

Adding a shortcut to the website basically means adding a shortcut icon to the website/webpage. The icon looks like an app amidst all of your other apps.

Here’s how to add a website shortcuts on the iPhone/iPad Homescreen:

Open Safari

Type in the web address

After the website loads, tap on the share icon at the bottom

In the share sheet, tap on Add to Home Screen

Give the website a name in the first text field (it’s up there by default but if you want to change it, do it here)

Tap on Add from top-right.

That’s it. That website will get added as an icon-shortcut. The icon is usually the favicon of the website that you just added. You can’t change that. Nevertheless, here’s your website.

This was for one website. If you routinely follow a handful of websites, the best choice would be RSS readers but if you like to visit the websites directly (all the time), you might want to do this:

Add each the website as a shortcut following the steps mentioned above. Then, put all the website shortcuts into a folder and name it something convenient like ‘Websites.’ Done! This is an easier way of keeping up with websites that you follow with the freedom of picking one website at a time instead of going through all the posts from all the websites.

iCloud tabs is another way but it’s not as much a ‘way’ – it just works when you are just handling a lot of tabs and need them across your device.